UNC-CH board removes DEI funding from next year's budget

WRAL ^ | 5/13/2024 | By Brian Murphy

[NohSpinZone]

UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees on Monday approved the transfer of $2.3 million in diversity and inclusion spending to public safety priorities in the 2024-25 budget.

The trustees held a special meeting Monday morning. The board is scheduled to hold its regular meeting Wednesday and Thursday.

The UNC System Board of Governors is expected to vote next week to eliminate diversity goals and jobs at member institutions, including UNC-Chapel Hill. A Board of Governors committee last month approved a complete rewrite of the system's existing diversity, equity and inclusion policy.

The move is likely to create job losses at the Chapel Hill campus, said trustee Dave Boliek.

"Clearly the Board of Governors has signaled by their policy and you had comments from legislative leaders that they're looking toward leadership at the university level," Boliek, a former chairman of the Board of Trustees, said in an interview. "We're providing it. We're leading."

The $2.3 million is money from state-appropriated dollars and trust fund money that were "immediately identified," Boliek said. The system office identified that money, he said. The university's operating budget in 2023-24 was $4.2 billion.

The new Board of Governors policy calls for each institution to certify by Sept. 1 that it "fully complies with the university's commitment to institutional neutrality and nondiscrimination."

It does away with current policy that establishes "system-wide diversity and inclusion metrics and goals" and created a "UNC System diversity and inclusion council."

[NohSpinZone]

This is a positive step and so are the universities who are doing away with pro-DEI statements for university job positions. Not nearly enough but some progress in undoing the massive damage that DEI types have wrought after Ferguson and George Floyd.

This has been a highly lucrative grift that needs to DIE and soon.

[Seruzawa]

Are they getting rid of the DEI programs or just calling the money something else?

[NohSpinZone]

Could be, hope not. But diverting some of the DEI money to campus police is definitely flipping them a double bird.

[Eva]

You don’t know the half of it, at least I don’t think that you have.A Portland, Oregon company moved to Atlanta, removed the owner of the company as CEO and replaced all top executives with Black women and are now firing all top White Men who aren’t DEI compliant, AND putting a non-compete clause in their firing, a non-compete clause, which extends to the whole world.

[NohSpinZone]

Absolutely disgusting. But it’s only a matter of time before companies like this implode. There is no other end. Maybe that was the intention?

[Eva]

They think that the company will be put up for sale this summer. I don’t exactly understand the whole thing, but they want $100,000 to buy out of the non-compete clause.